Senior product designer at GIPHY. Takes photos, makes things move, & writes code. Father of kittens. Enjoys the great outdoors. Human Being in Brooklyn. Holds a Bachelor of Design degree from Penn State. This website is a collection of things that I'm mostly not working on while at work.

They're probably not too far off in the future, right? Ever since Rob Banks over at East River Tattoo stamped a New England lighthouse scene onto my forearm last May, I've been itching to bring it alive in After Effects. This is probably the most time or detail I've put into an illustration/animation before (Illustrator feels like a far distant beast from my college studio days)... I started out in November but promptly forgot about it for a bit while making this site. Many little bits and pieces to this one scattering the post. Oh, and apologies for the for-sure-stuttering that this page probably has for those of you with slower internet connections...working on improvements!

The original reference + an Ashe.

Good god this part frustrated the living hell out of me.

Many fun patternsssss

The screen will often times look like the above while scrubbing through large assets in AE, which inspired the below 8-bit pixelly versions.